Cursor is expanding its AI development environment with its own platform for hosting source code. With Origin, the company gains functionality that has largely been available on platforms such as GitHub and GitLab. The service is specifically designed for software development with AI agents.
Origin is Cursor’s first major product launch since its $60 billion acquisition by SpaceX in June. The service will be available as an early beta to users with paid Cursor subscriptions. The initial release includes the key components of a code hosting platform, such as repositories, pull requests, and code viewing.
Code and agents together
Users can create a repository from a new “Codebase” tab and then clone code or push it to Origin via the command line. With this, Cursor goes beyond its original role as an AI code editor, the company can now also manage the infrastructure on which project source code is stored.
The integration with Cursor agents plays a key role in this. An agent can answer questions about code within a repository, but it can also make changes, modify a pull request, or push a new branch. As a result, code, pull requests, and AI agents are all housed within the same environment.
Cursor offers both agents that run locally on the developer’s computer and cloud agents in a secure environment. The latter can continue to perform long-running programming tasks even when the user’s computer is turned off, according to SiliconANGLE.
This aligns with the broader shift toward agentic software development. In this approach, AI not only generates individual pieces of code but also takes on more tasks within the development process. A hosting platform directly integrated with such agents can eliminate steps between writing, reviewing, and merging code.
GitHub remains on board for now
Cursor isn’t trying to lure users away from GitHub right away. Existing GitHub repositories can be synchronized with Origin. Developers decide for themselves which repositories to import and can disconnect them later.
For such linked repositories, GitHub remains the primary source. Pushes go to GitHub, while the code can also be viewed and searched within Origin. Pull requests are also synchronized in both directions. For example, a comment posted from Cursor appears on GitHub, while comments and reviews from GitHub become visible within Cursor. Reviews can then be handled and merged from within Cursor.
This makes it easier to try out Origin. Development teams do not need to migrate their existing repositories right away to use the new environment.
CI and deployments, too
An ecosystem of development tools is also emerging around Origin. At launch, integrations are available with Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite. Through Vercel, a preview deployment can be automatically created for a pull request. Depot and Buildkite can execute existing GitHub Actions workflows; Buildkite also supports its own pipelines.
This means Origin is not yet a complete replacement for established development platforms. Cursor itself refers to it as an early beta and is starting with basic functionality. More agent-specific features are set to follow later.
This move does make it clear that Cursor is broadening its scope. While the company initially competed primarily with programming tools and AI assistants, Origin allows it to move further into the software development chain. This ultimately brings it into territory dominated by GitHub and GitLab.